The effects of the Midwest drought this summer were worsened by the fuel mandate.
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The document from 16 leading environmental organisations says it took the wettest ever summer to avert serious drought.
Smaller outfits seldom have much of a cushion to buy extra feed, and Texas had a nasty drought last summer, too.
And also now that Congress has left, and given the drought this summer, how anxious is the White House to get a farm bill?
To understand how dependent industry is on water, look no further than the southeast U.S. Last summer, a severe drought in the region forced a nuclear power plant, Browns Ferry, to shut down one of three reactors for a week.
The heat and drought of the summer are gone, providing favorable conditions for new plantings to take hold.
Snowbound in winter, flooded in spring and drought ridden in the summer, it's a hard life in Badakshan.
The South East joins parts of eastern England which have been in a drought situation since last summer.
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Right now, if Congress had gotten its act together, we would have a farm bill to help farmers and ranchers respond to natural disasters like the drought we had this summer.
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At the beginning of the summer it was even drier, with drought conditions for some of the Outer Hebrides.
Real GDP growth in the second quarter was revised down due, in part, to a downward revision to agriculture inventories as a result of the devastating drought our nation faced this summer.
In Rajasthan, where the state government is generally held to have coped well with a five-year drought that only ended with this summer's monsoon, the BJP also won comfortably, as in Chhattisgarh.
As I wrote several months ago, the media did the same thing with the hot summer, arguing frequently that this recent hot dry summer proved a trend for extreme temperatures, drought, and forest fires.
Despite a devastating drought that plagued much of the country last summer, commercial farm prices have soared.
Large swathes of western, northern and southern India are suffering from drought due to a failure of monsoon rains during the summer season.
In fact, none of these are the case this summer was not unprecedented on any of these dimensions and no upward trend is detectable in long-term drought or fire data.
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